Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox! If you have not come across a daddy longlegs while living in the UK then you may well have been living under a rock.
There aren't many people who haven't experienced the frightening moment one of the gangly beasts somehow bundles their way through a bedroom window and lands on your head.Despite being harmless to human beings there is something unnerving about the oversized pins dangling from its body.
With that in mind scientists decided it would be worth their time to try and morph daddy longlegs or harvestmen into daddy 'shortlegs' through gene manipulation, reports CNET.
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